Wednesday, March 2, 2011

S/Found Poem

S/Found Poem

The healthy don’t know what they’re missing.It seems like someoneis cracking a whipinside my earseach time I move my eyesswiftly from side to side.Tinnitus sways to some strange drums.Not everyone gets to experiencethis inervating oddity.And, Richard Burton oncealmost lost an eyein a knifefight;it hung by a thread.You know, he said,you can seethe most extraordinarythings with your eyehanging half-waydown your face.

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Tinnitus, the disruptive ringing in the ears that affects millions of people, originates not in the ear but in the brain, and not even exclusively in the brain's auditory centers, a new study has shown.

In research published Monday in Neurology, scientists at UB and the Buffalo VA Medical Center show that some people with tinnitus can change the ear-ringing by specific eye movements, evidence that one sensory system can affect another.

"These findings show us that in many cases, tinnitus is not caused by a simple disturbance of brain function, but by a combination of things, including an abnormal interaction between the visual and auditory systems," said Alan H. Lockwood, first author on the study. Lockwood is professor of neurology, nuclear medicine, and communicative disorders and sciences and directs the Center for Positron Emission tomography (PET), a joint UB/VA venture.